Name: You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown
ISBN: 9780142406298

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

Vacation, Interrupted

A lively summer mishap brings illness and family hopes into the same child-sized tangle.

Come here for

The comic contrast between big vacation plans and an itchy surprise
A child’s hopes about seeing her father

Expect

A bright, accessible story about illness disrupting summer plans
Family feelings alongside the vacation trouble

Book Details

Authors: Paula Danziger
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: September 7, 2006
Format: Paperback
Theme: Stories About Divorce · Stepfamily Stories
Reading lane: Stories About Divorce

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Publisher Categories

Parent-Child Stories
Stories Set in Europe
Chapter Books

About This Book

Even when surprises come from all directions, Amber Brown is always bold, bright, and colorful. #Amber Brown is out now on Apple TV+ It's finally summer and Amber Brown is going to London to visit her aunt Pam and then to Paris to visit with her father. She is one excited kid before she goes. And one itchy kid when she arrives. Mosquito bites, she thinks. Chicken pox, she finds out. Is her vacation completely ruined? And now that she can't go to Paris, how will she be able t...

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Even when surprises come from all directions, Amber Brown is always bold, bright, and colorful. #Amber Brown is out now on Apple TV+ It's finally summer and Amber Brown is going to London to visit her aunt Pam and then to Paris to visit with her father. She is one excited kid before she goes. And one itchy kid when she arrives. Mosquito bites, she thinks. Chicken pox, she finds out. Is her vacation completely ruined? And now that she can't go to Paris, how will she be able to convince her dad to move back home?